No gallery with FTP upload?
thommy2911 - February 27, 2008 - 23:09
Don't know if I'm just too bad in searching the modules, or if I'm the only one which requires something like this. Is there no module available which just generates image galleries based on the file folder structure? I would just like to have a menu item "pictures" and upload images via FTP, so that pictures are shown in galleries without first creating galleries in the admin panel. I like the brilliant gallery to include pictures in pages but it does not solve the problem. Any idea?
Image module
I'm not sure where you're looking, but the Image module includes these:
* image_gallery.module : using taxonomy terms, organize and display your uploaded pictures in galleries
* image_attach.module : allows you to easily attach image nodes to other node types.
* image_im_advanced.module : adds advanced ImageMagick options such as image sharpening to the ImageMagick image toolkit.
* image_import.module : simplify adding multiple images by importing images from a directory on the server.
Another possibility would be the Image Publishing module, which does not implement FTP, but rather the Gallery Remote and Windows XP Publishing protocols. You can bulk-upload directly from Windows Explorer or from iPhoto on the Mac (using a plugin). I use it on several sites and like it a lot. It works with the Image module and other gallery implementations that are based on Drupal taxonomy.
Galleries without login?
Hi yelvington, thanks for the quick reply!
Don't know if I brought across what I mean. I actually don't want to logon to the admin panel of my site but just create another subfolder using my FTP client and upload the pictures. The gallery hierachy would then be automatically generated based on the subfolder structure, e.g.
pictures/2008/01/03_event_xyz
pictures/2008/01/14_birthday_party
pictures/2008/01/28_whatever
pictures/2008/02/06_schools_out_party
Is this possible with the Image module? There you always need to create the galleries in the admin panel first, don't you? Of course you can use the image_import module but still you need to create the gallery.
as far as I've seen, you
as far as I've seen, you cannot even have the images in different folders - or at least it's not documented at all.
so I wouldn't go as far as thinking you can do that... yet.
Brilliant Gallery will use a
Brilliant Gallery will use a single directory as a Gallery.
That's not quite what you want though.
Hmm, wonder if the author would add subdir/gallery handling?
The Fast Gallery module should do that
I found the Fast Gallery module, which seems to do just that.
http://drupal.org/project/fast_gallery